A manual corpus of annotated main findings of clinical case reports.

ABSTRACT: Clinical case reports are the `eyewitness reports' of medicine and provide a valuable, unique, albeit noisy and underutilized type of evidence. Generally a case report has a single main finding that represents the reason for writing up the report in the first place. In the present study, we present the results of manual annotation carried out by two individuals on 500 randomly sampled case reports. This corpus contains main finding sentences extracted from title, abstract and full-text of the same article that can be regarded as semantically related and are often paraphrases. The final reconciled corpus of 416 articles comprises an open resource for further study. This is the first step in establishing text mining models and tools that can identify main finding sentences in an automated fa

SUBMITTER: Smalheiser NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6335863 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature